5th Column Held High Holland Army Posts
5th Column Held High Holland Army Posts Mussert Seen As Hitler's Dutch 'Chief' Special to The New Leader -T . ZURICH. — Unless Holland's army can torn in another Madrid, the Germans will be...
...The two Socialist members of the Dutch cabinet have been working on this liaison apparatus...
...Press Pickups 1ITENDELL WLLKJE, whose extra-curricular activities at college " included association with Socialist societies (he got it from his dad), is being urged by Dorothy Thompson to take second place on a Rooeevelt-for-President national coalition ticket...
...Taminent Set For sDecoration Day Week-End Tamiment in all its beauty of spring adornments and improved landscaping will open for the Decoration Day week-end on Wednesday, May 2.9, and continue to celebrate the week-end through Sunday, June 2. A gala floor show, concert, movies and dancing round out the good, time for all guests, both old and new, of Tamiment...
...We know it well enough—those of us that were long ago disillusioned as to the realities of Production for Profit, curse and bane of the world...
...Its products to be floated down the Rhine to subsidized German ships at tide water, and i^ay to the ends of the earth, annihilating competition...
...Morris Berman, one of the original founders of the camp and its continuous' president for the past twenty years, was re-elected to that post...
...A Wilkae-for-President boom is being considered by the ScrippeHoward chain and the Time, Life, Fortune combine...
...No such prospect has ever opened before the eyes of any ether Caesar...
...2...
...One' of the most important being the Meyer London Library, to which Mrs...
...t Labor delegates now meeting in annual congress -at Bourney mouth, always in danger cf blitzkrieg bombing, heard, among national executive committee reports, one dealing with the electoral truce...
...V • ,. ¦ -1.1 We Bleat One Way And Move Another TT IS NO CONCERN of ours" has chanted over many of these progressions the Sage of the Short Circuit School of Thought *nd Apostle of the Bended Knee...
...Gardner Jackson {whose husband tried to" smash the recent sharecroppers' drive of the Socialist Party), Mrs...
...PM's press editor will be Hodding Carter, the nucleus of the paper's staff has been in the field for several weeks making contacts at city, state and federal offices...
...By Dick Reynard Workers Abroad POLITICAL BLINDERS go at a premium these days on the * splinter left This boom market in ideological blindfolds would be worth a laugh if isolationist-utopianism—of the Hexton-Pivert type—were not tragic in the light of the grim picture etched * blood along the Mease-Sedan-Rotterdam fronts...
...In the 1937 city elections the Social Democrats took 45 seats against the 35 Conservative, two liberal and two Christian places...
...applications: French Statesman—But do you not see, my dear-, that if JOu continue to coddle- and support Germany, as you are now doing, you will inevitably encourage her to try again what she attempted in 1914...
...Latest coup is Max Lerner...
...Later he had charge of the building of the huge lock-building scheme at Muiden, and finally became chief engineer of the Waterworks Administration of the Providence of Utrecht Some ten years ago he started the Netherlands National Socialist party . Much later he was dismissed from public service...
...Never imagine that he is with¦*ut a reason...
...Writing about it then, half-wonderingly, half-emusedly, never did f imagine that thirty-five years would see it upon the imminent verge of reaUartipn...
...Not a small nation in the world has today any ground for confidence in its continued existence—and not many of the great nations,"'outside of the "Fascist conspiracy...
...Mussert is 46 years old, a native of Workendam...
...Following the example of the Austrian exiled movements, the Dutch Socialists and trade unionists prepare an underground "government" inside Holland and will cooperate with their military men in creating a Dutch legion if the Nazis fully occupy the nW> lands...
...A reply to the Moley articles attacking the TNEC monopoly probe is being prepared by some of the younger New Deal economists and will appear shortly in the liberal Catholic, anti-Coughlinite magazine, the Commonweal...
...AH that is gone now—how do the utopianists plan to reinstate it...
...ijOLLAND, Belgium, Luxembourg go the way of Czecho-Slo•**vakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, under the same machine .moving toward the same objective...
...Oh, well, if she gets troublesome well have to lick her -again...
...The annual meeting of the People's Educational Camp Society, Ins., owners of Camp Tamiment, took place on Monday evening, May 13, in the office of Camp Tamiment, at 7 East 15th Be., New York City...
...If in 1932, when Japan was setting the precedent for these aggressions and spoliations, Secretary of State iStimson's proposal of a peaceful boycott had been accepted, there would have been no rape of Ethiopia, of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Albania, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and the claws of the Wild^j Beast would not now be pointed at every free government on earth...
...There is little doubt that this network of "clubs," now existing in -every non-belligerent . country- in the world, reported hack to the Berlin war...
...The winds may: roar, the thunders crash, the billows rise, the ships sink, the earth tremble...
...Aid was also given the German parachute soldiers by the Nazi "physical culture" clubs, which were trained secretly and at night...
...Norway's almost forgotten struggle is led by Premier Nygaarsvoid, who is still in Scandinavia...
...They have, declared their own little war on David Saposs, Smith because Saposs' Division of Economic Research is the nerve center of the Wagner Act apparatus, Pressman because Saposs for years has been an energetic anti-Stalinite and has been bucking the CP's attempts to turn the Labor Board into a patronage mill...
...This organization has been ¦working secretly in recent weeks and no doubt it was Dr...
...Anna Berman, they have loyally backed all of activities...
...1 Hew We Know Tkey Think MIDMOST of the beetling storm stands one heroic figure, un* " shaken, unafraid...
...even the Dutch counterespionage service to detect...
...and upon ftem he turns his lofty brow mantled with the frown of stern reproof...
...To this tremendous crisis has the'capitalist system of societyV brought all that by centuries of struggle and sacrifice has been) gained for human freedom, human dignity,: civilization and man's advancement...
...Berman for more than 20 years has been a staunch supporter of the Rand School of Social Science and the People's House...
...Anton Mussert, who...
...Mike Clary, John T. MacMan us, Tom Meany and William H. Ryan of P.M...
...Huntington Hartford II, of the Atlantic and Pacific millions, is a member of the reportorial staff...
...The destruction of Holland would:mean the transfer of the control of the Dutch East Indies into the .hands of Germany...
...1 ¦ _. . t Iff Don't Speak The Truth Aloud...
...xx-.jfci...
...v j, V i ' - ,--:.;\«- ¦ % ^: ,\ •' - HAT EVER revolt may have been in the air at the conference, was later quieted by the entry of the leading labor Parliamentary and industrial leaders into the cabinet...
...Switzerland annexed, and with'it the illimitable undeveloped waterpower b| the Alpine region...
...Chief counsel Toland, labor baiter for the Smith Committee, received information from the commissars for the attack on Saposs...
...Commissars over on 13th Street have ordered the attack first to use him to deflect the drive on CP friends on th~e Board, and second to smear him as a Communist and so offer him up as the sacrificial "red" and prevent the firing of their lads...
...4nd >f I know anything of my countrymen, the number of submis*owsts to that extent is small, even...
...the Christian National trade unions had 120,000...
...These army liaison men are backed by the Polish Bund, tile Polish Socialist Party, and the Socialist parties and labor movements of the other invaded nations...
...The Socialist unions were the largest and strongest...
...Anticipating an isolationist policy, Henry Ford is reported to have offered backers of PM a half million dollars...
...Many leading Nazis and Hitlerite ' sympathizers were arrested last month after, the Germans' effective secret weapon—gold— paved a way into Norway...
...As in England, the labor movement representatives cooperate with the cabinet's war bureaus' study of economic, industrial, and social problems...
...Germany, absorbing ^Holland, would not be deterred for a moment from the possession of these treasure ^u>ds*y any such proclamation of tfcje United States...
...As it now stands, Parliamentary Chief Major Clement Attlee is Lord Privy Seal...
...Including the Short Circuit, « course...
...Ernest K. Lindley, Mrs...
...The Viennese ere not yet participating in high command strategy councils...
...A y Alexander becomes Lord of the Admiralty, the job he held effectively in past Labor cabinets...
...Stalinite commissars in the CIO even succeeded in alienating the pro-labor minority on the Smith committee from Saposs—almost convincing this minority to recommend, in its fine report, the dismissal of Saposs...
...V No-such cataclysm has ever before menaced the free peoples, and all of them...
...Documentation of Nazi subsidization of official Communist publications in Mexico is offered...
...Aubrey Williams . . . and not forgetting Mrs...
...It deprived him of One of his best markets at a Sp»e when markets were contracting...
...French Unions' Activities Unhindered A LONG with the parachute troops and mysterious "weapons" which the totalitarian!sts have been developing, they have exploited to the last perversion the theory of "the big Me...
...On excellent authority we learn that the CIO's recent lobbying army, which buttonholed every member of Congress to prevent amendment of the Labor Act, was ordered by CIO headquarters not to defend Saposs or the appropriations for his vital division...
...If the anti-Communist group wins the delegation, it will swing the balance of power at the Memphis convention and the ANG will have a non-party line head for the first time...
...The Party is perfectly free to carry on its normal functions as the official Opposition in Parliament and its general political activity in the^country...
...VfOU may not think the Nazi-Soviet pact could put Lee Press* man, legal genius (he thinks) of the CIO, and Congressman Howard Smith (of Virginia, suh...
...Netherlands officers are Nazis has been difficult for...
...Against these shivering ones goes up the unrelenting Johnsonian battle cry: "Overimy dead body...
...The trade unions had more than doubled their membership during the Social Democratic regime...
...By Charles Edward Russell The News Reel HOLLAND annexed, and with it the mouth of the Rhine and the control of that river...
...Herbert Bayard Swope and George Backer may start a new foreign news service called Overseas News Agency...
...Ernest Bevin, former Trade Union Congress chief and general secretary of the Transport and General Workers • Union, one of the largest unions in the world, is Minister of Labor, replacing ErErnesf Bevin nest Brown, arch-conservative, who held the ernesr oevin fyf fiye years...
...to man, that region S become the great German workshop...
...Mussert's cells which Were the links in the network into which the Germans sank their parachute troops...
...This was the German dream as 1 round it in 1905...
...In many-outlying towns which were used last week by the German air army, the police were under suspicion because they had failed to act energetically, on the Queen's orders, against the local followers of Dr...
...Robert H. Jackson (she may yet be First Lady), Mrs...
...German control of these islands would give Germany a stranglehold upon such supplies...
...That—and more...
...g. [ "It might lead us into war...
...These unions had worked out training courses for those leaving the schools each year...
...Felix Morley (he edits the Washington Post), Congresswoman Caroline O'Day, Mrs...
...the mass go hang...
...Wonderful...
...He attended Delft University and, became an engineer in 1918...
...And now, despite strategic Allied evacuation, the Socialists have set up overnight a far-flung network of cells well equipped to undermine the Nazi attempts at consolidation...
...Secretary Hull had foreseen somef shch contingency and had declared unequivocally that the UniteH States would not tolerate «ny change of sovereignty in the Dufchi East Indies...
...jpOR the first time in its history there is a convention fight in * the New York local df the American Newspaper Guild...
...Shop stewards have been, legally recognized by the employers...
...Harold lckes (who knows what it's all about), Mrs...
...Defense against 'chute troops was further hampered and complicated by false orders emanating from police officers who were secret Nazis...
...Eleanor 'Roosevelt...
...Hans Rott, former Austrian Minister of Labor, and JJeinrich Allina, former Social Democratic and labor leader, are faffing an Austrian legion which will be coordinated into the Allied ¦ war machine...
...There is as much truth in this impression as there is in a Frank Gannett publicity squib...
...Although these were constantly exposed by Het'Volk, Socialist daily, there was little time left to reorganize both the army and the police...
...In the next edition of Living Age, Stephen Naft exposes the Nazi-ifinanced Fifth Column in Mexico, and shows the link to Lombardo Toledano's armed "workers" militia...
...fef* And with it, too, is the lure, political and merchantable, of V a quadrilateral and factual domination of the globe...
...Already on its list are Mrs...
...The Norwegian Labor Government which, after taking office in March, IMS, devoted itself to extreme pacifism, now fights far below Narvik to hamper German occupation...
...The new government consists of 39 Conservatives, 11 Laborites, four Simon Liberals, three apposition Liberals, one National Laborite, and seven national representatives...
...The Labor Party was by far the largest political organization in Norway...
...Duff Cooper, new London minister of information, has banned the London Daily Worker and the Sir Oswald Mosley fascist sheet from being sent abroad because of the fear that they might contain coded espionage stories...
...Unless Holland's army can torn in another Madrid, the Germans will be creating a Dutch Major Quisling and the Dutch Nasi party—which polled only 171,137 votes out of 4,058,077 in Holland's May, 1937, parliamentary election—will be set up in the Hague to replace Queen Wilhelmina's government...
...1 British Labor Party \ Membership Rises k« DESPITE nearly nine months of wartime guiei'iuueot, aflse lett-, ish Labor Party has increased by 804>00 persons since last year, reaching a total of 2.663,067 in Its affiliated #itmttmifcj...
...But there still is the would-be Dutch fuehrer, a Dr...
...And by the time this sees print Sweden may have been invaded...
...Two recent developments ought to show to even the shallowest observer how surely these things may...
...George neglected one detail—as dc all isolationists here and abroad: that the socialist and labor- movement* of all but one democracy, Sweden, have been strafed by totalitarian mechanized fire...
...It has not occurred to the Short Circuited Ones jbujtr is nevertheless the fact ***t when Secretary Hull took this Stand he took also the first dear step to war...
...boasts that he leads some 50,000 members of the Netherlands National Socialist Party...
...I ALLAN SYMES, who columns for a competitor, is corralling "big names" for the Independent Committee for Thomas (for president...
...Long-haired Jimmy Maxton may have been deeply inured in his international dialects when in Parliament this week he attacked the new Labor-filled British cabinet, but in guarding the "socialist" virginity of the Independent Labor Party, the sellstyled Marxian St...
...Until banned by government decree these physical culture organizations went on frequent "long hikes" during which they studied the terrain...
...Heard on the Left By VICTOR RIESEL I IFE didn't begin in '40 for American isolationists...
...We know it—I |on't know why we don't • say it...
...A youth congress held some months ago was attended by 850 delegates...
...t" I It is deep-sea diving like this into the recondite recesses of causes and events that has given to the Senate its national and international reputation for profoud meditation...
...We learned the other night that Eugene Lyons, editor of the American Mercury, Suzanne LaFollette, writer, also with the Mercury, and Ferdinand Lundberg, author of America's Sixty Families and Imperial Hearst, have resigned from the Keep America Out of War group...
...Their committees are dwindling at a pace proportionate to the disappearance of Europe's boundaries...
...They had just set up Youth Councils as training schools for the selection of leaders out of the young trade unionists...
...Together with his wife, Mrs...
...Ezekiel, Mrs...
...The CPs literature is obi viousiy aimed at creating division between the French and British working people...
...This is the highest figure since 1927, when membership was cat 5 by the restrictive Trades Disputes Act...
...And day by day grows more doubtful the continued 'existence of our own...
...The authority of the CGT has been consolidated and recognized by the government...
...This has enabled them to secure the increase of soldiers' families' 1 allowances...
...It was rejectjed, tjiat effective proposal, only because it would interfere with British trade with Japan...
...Not until recently, however, has this stratagem worked effectively...
...Guerrilla sniping is prevalent in Oslo, which had a Socialist majority on the municipal council for years...
...recent Rand School Third of a Century Drive...
...Intervention ism may be an ugly word, but it is being pointed out in the party that if London and Paris go down, the Labor and Socialist International will be an underground movement, figuratively . . . and literally...
...This is just part of the national revoltagainst the leadership which is bent on putting American newspapermen on record against the Allies and President Roosevelt...
...1I*ARRIAGE make...
...Herren, the worJd is Germany's...
...English Statesman—Ah, hum—ah—Germany...
...This rock shall flee from its firm base as soon as he...
...The National Women's Conference on Unemployment, a Workers Alliance front and a transmission belt if we've ever seen one, is soliciting endorsers...
...Socialist isolationists are reported having then* own Battle of the Muse...
...Timid spirits, anxiously watching the tempest, have suggested that it might be good insurance for the United States if *we were to lend money to "the nations that are struggling to salvage what is left of democracy in the world...
...Offfch Underground Movement Prepared WHEN THE NEW ALLIED high command meets to Paris shortly, representatives of Holland and Belgium will join General Sikorski and Premier Zalenski of Poland and M. Bachke of Norway as an advisor to the British and French military...
...In addition, they secured within the Ministry for Social Affairs a government Social Youth Service, the) object of which was to keep youth occupied and eat of totalitarian propaganda's reach...
...Routes of the Fifth Column are many...
...Despite mobilization and dissolution of Stalinite unions, the French Confederation of Labor has reestablished its normal activities...
...Henry Grady, Mrs...
...jf __ I iofogwe to ie Remembered ? I t/ERITABLE but hitherto unprinted conversation that took I r place in Paris in the year 1922—published now for the sake ,tt certain hjghly curious deductions aid...
...Drew Pearson, Mils...
...That is to say, what is the use of however blatting and blaJung a<X>ut Keep Us Out of War when to jtott intents and purposes we *»« already plunged into it and coiiWj not possibly do anything else...
...In a report issued last week by Leon Jouhaux to the AngloFrench trade union council, he revealed that the CGT is once more negotiating grievances and wages and hours terms with the employers and the government...
...first of all our balance sheet, | and let the Future ...o>i...
...David Rhys GrenfeB, Laborite, gets the post of Secretary for Mines and Sir W. A. Jowitt, of the Labor Party, has been appointed as Solicitor-General...
...By no possibility could there be a more complete, more con-,,, vincing, more momentous demonstration of the eternal truth of the faith we profess...
...become our most intimate «nd supreme concern, <••:' v 1. The burglary of Holland and Belgium struck hard at the American farmer...
...and the Dutch (non-partisan) unions listed 50,000...
...No acceptance...
...strange politics—and the Stalinites have been "* exploiting it no end...
...of anti-NLRB notoriety, into each other's political arms, but...
...For with the vision is now joined the immense values of regimented labor, subdued and upon a subsistence Stasis...
...they had devised a national cultural program for democracy in which 25,004 youngsters had participated actively...
...Successful CGT reorganisation has irked the illegal Communist network into a frenzy of leaflets, pamphlets, and other publications misrepresenting the position of the French unions, and falsely charging that certain non-Communist unions had been suppressed and trade onion leaders arrested ¦ in a government anti-labor drive...
...Only a small section of the once powerful Communist rank and file has refrained from vehemently disavowing CP policy...
...Until the Nazi military machine -droned over Holland,- the Dutch trade union membership affiliated with the IFTU numbered 325,000...
...Berman were -the first contributors in the...
...Among isolationists in this country there is little doubt that all French culture suffers from an incubus of huge chains and grimy dungeons...
...One of the methods of getting at prominent political figures is to work through their wives...
...all around him...
...All property of the unions which f Leon Jouhaux, CGT general secretary, was forced to dissolve because of their anti-French propaganda, now has been transferred to unions affiliated with the CGT...
...increase came in trade union divisions, f An annual report reveals that the Party has about 408,000 itie dividual members and had an income of about $350,000 last year, b Analysis of the literature sale*—which brought SOmO-fsW/RO .1 into party coffers—reveals the extent of Labor Party organization end education, war or no war...
...Supplied thus with the cheapest power knpjwn...
...The fiery Maxtons of the world lose sight of the reports «asj>ing out of Denmark that the Social Democratic party—end the Stauning-led government—have been decimated bj- the' usualljefficient German forces of occupation, Pacifists, /erget that for the first time since the Austrian Socialists barricaded the Karl Marx Hof against Dolfuss' cannon, Socialists are fighting Ness in the full military sense...
...Said the NEC: "Apart from the war-issue which, without a shadow of doubt, is a matter of life and liberty to the British people, the NEC is convinced that.the present and prospective interests of the Party demand adherence to this electoral agreement...
...All were smeared by the commissars...
...The Dutch East Indies are our principal Source of supply of two Indispensable commodities, tin and rubber...
...But there are pro-German cells in the Netherlands royal army despite the recent purge in the higher military ranks which hit even former Commander-in-Chief General P. H. Reynders...
...Above everything else, keep oot of war...
...Edwin S. Smith, and Mrs...
...Save the Profits And Skip the Rest THE TERRIFYING crux of capitalistic iniquities is not only '* exactly conformable to the diagnoses of Socialism but it is poignantly illustrated i by chapters of current and unforgettable history...
...and Mrs...
...The slate charged with being Communist-controlled has been endorsed by Duncan Aikman...
...Over 650,000 pamphlet* -wore raid...
...Berman makes a substantial annual contribution for books...
...This increase takes the bottom oat of arguments thai ehs ftmtish Labor Party's support of the -government's war l»silsy H>s been unpopular...
...ministry so frequently and detailedly that the Nazis, were able to map every creek, every plain in Holland...
...First of all .oir Profits...
...Arthur Greenwood, Deputy Party Leader, is Minister Without Portfolio in the war board of the cabinet...
...About six million leaflets wort e distributed...
...Here is the whole story laid bare before the eyes of mankind and we point not a finger at it...
...Herbert Morrison, dynamic organiser of the London Labor Party and leader of the London County Council, is Minister of Supply, a post where he is badly needed...
...Just how many...
...We should *¦» be in this position that we must either fight to make good or kiss the rod to keep the peace and get supplies on Germany's terms...
...And he has his reasons too...
...This belief results from the Comintern's propaganda machine here...
...the Roman Catholic unions had 190,000...
...aught shall perturb the soul serene of Hiram Socrates Johnson...
...On the anti-Communist slate in New York are John Chamberlain, Ferdinand Lundberg, Max Danish, Herman Dins-more—assistant cable editor of the New York Times, Oliver Pilat, and this commentator...
...A former army man was alway in command...
...All central trades councils have been reconstituted following the dropping of Stalinite officers...
Vol. 23 • May 1940 • No. 20
